Saad Haddad

Saad Haddad (1936-14 January 1984) was the founder of the South Lebanon Army during the Lebanese Civil War and an ally of Israel.

Biography
Saad Haddad was born in 1936, and he served in the Lebanese Army for many years. Haddad was a Major in 1975, when he decided to defect to the Israeli-sponsored surrogate force during the Lebanese Civil War, and he founded the South Lebanon Army. Its goal was to prevent PLO guerrillas from attacking northern Israel, and in 1979 he was branded a traitor and dismissed from the Lebanese Army. His forces may have been responsible for the Sabra and Chatila massacres, killing as many as 3,500 Palestinian refugees in 1982; he died in 1984 of cancer. Antoine Lahad succeeded him as commander.